This is the most complete tutorial on how you shape sourdough bread, step by step so that you can follow easily. You will mater 2 techniques - beginner and then advanced. The methods also work for yeast based doughs.

So what exactly is shaping and when is it done? After pre-shaping or directly after bulk fermenting you want to shape your bread into the final form it should have after the bake. A very tight shaping means that your dough holds together very well and thus it will be able to hold its shape during the baking stage. You will likely have more oven spring. You are basically glueing the dough together with each movement of your hands.

Only during shaping stage you want to add some flour to your surface. For pre-shaping no flour is needed. Flip your dough upside down and then follow the instructions in this video. Be very gentle with your dough all the time. You want to use as little water as possible.

If you want to shape a batard, simply go with method one. Do not tuck the dough together like I did in the end.

Now if this does not work it could be that you over-fermented your dough, or you used too much water for your flour. Many reasons. This happens to me to and what I then do is, I just take the dough and toss it into a loaf pan. That saved me many breads.

Side note - when making pizza, this is in excellent way to shape your dough into pizza balls. I like to do it this way, since the method is very gentle, making sure your pizza is not degassed.

Flour I am using:
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Drax Mühle Manitoba flour 14% protein: [ Ссылка ]
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Useful videos:
Debaked ep. 1 - Pizza journey to Napoli: [ Ссылка ]
Debaked ep. 2 - Journey to a flour mill: [ Ссылка ]
Discard starter bread: [ Ссылка ]
Fermentation time table: [ Ссылка ]
Make a sourdough starter: [ Ссылка ]
Make your starter more active: [ Ссылка ]
Recommend sourdough bread recipe: [ Ссылка ]

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Preparing the Banneton with rice flour
2:40 Easy technique
5:40 Advanced technique
7:06 Tightening the dough

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